FILM DIRECTOR

Henry Koster

1905 - 1988

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Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Koster has received more than 197,243 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Henry Koster is the 505th most popular film director (up from 581st in 2019), the 2,651st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,963rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Henry Koster ranks 505 out of 2,041. Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ernst Marischka, Gleb Panfilov, Vicente Aranda, and Marcel Camus. After him are Michael Apted, John Milius, Alessandro Blasetti, Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, and Ted Kotcheff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Henry Koster ranks 123. Before him are Joseph Bonanno, Harry Harlow, Leo Genn, Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, and Louis Harold Gray. After him are Hans Freudenthal, Pierre Brasseur, Ivan Eklind, Nathan Homer Knorr, Eduard Tubin, and Albert W. Tucker. Among people deceased in 1988, Henry Koster ranks 84. Before him are Giacinto Scelsi, Gil Evans, Françoise Dolto, Antal Doráti, Raymond Williams, and Alec Issigonis. After him are Divine, Anne Ramsey, Cyril Jackson, Hillel Slovak, Seán MacBride, and Fritz Heider.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henry Koster ranks 2,651 out of 7,253. Before him are Otl Aicher (1922), Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Stefan Heym (1913), Marie Eleonore of Cleves (1550), and Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760). After him are Dirk Nowitzki (1978), Princess Augusta of Prussia (1780), Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1502), Philippine Welser (1527), Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1882), and Neidhart von Reuental (1180).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Henry Koster ranks 25. Before him are Lotte Reiniger (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Walter Frentz (1907), and Alexander Kluge (1932). After him are Tom Tykwer (1965), Uli Edel (1947), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Peter Stein (1937), Bernd Eichinger (1949), and Fatih Akin (1973).

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